PM Gems

Features

- Stories read in clear speech with Australian accents
- The ability to hear individual words spoken aloud by clicking on them
- A facility to enable children to write their own versions of the stories, hear them read aloud by the computer, and (subject to the teacher's permission) print them
- Extensive teacher options, including the ability to create different user-groups, each with their own settings
- Comprehensive tracking options, allow the teacher to monitor the progress of a whole group or of each individual
- Questions and activities for every book.

It provides a clearly spoken reading of each story, and related activities.

Reading

As with the original PM Story Books software, the main feature of new packages is the “Read” facility. The computer reads each page of the stories aloud, in a pre-recorded Australian voice, and a moving underline (optionally) highlights each word as it is spoken. This allows children to associate the sound of each word with its printed appearance and its meaning – which is what reading is all about! Students can also click on any word to hear it.

Reading: click on the 'hear' button to hear the whole page, or click on an individual word.

Writing

Children can write their own version of each story, can save it and (if the teacher permits) can print it and hear it spoken (using the computer's text-to-speech engine). This facility is aimed more at slightly older children.

Writing: students can write and save their own version of each story, which can be printed (subject to the teacher's settings)

New - Questions

A series of questions accompanies each story. These test and reinforce students' comprehension of the content of each story and their familiarity with its vocabulary and key words.

Questions: these test and reinforce the student's comprehension of the story and its vocabulary.

New - Activities

There is also a number of activities to go with each story. These are very varied, including spelling and phonic exercises, missing-word puzzles, and other activities related to the plot of the story, such as climbing trees, catching fish, popping balloons and solving jigsaw puzzles. These provide a very popular and involving way of reinforcing the vocabulary and content of each story.

Activities: there's a wide range of stimulating exercises relevant to each story.

Enhanced Teacher Facilities

Teachers can arrange students in different user-groups, each with its own settings, and can easily inspect the progress of either an entire group or of an individual student. These reports show which questions and activities each student has completed, thus giving a good measure of their progress and understanding.

Tracking: This shows a report on the progress on a particular student.

PM Gems Level Description

Magenta CD  Levels 2-3

Red CD          Levels 3-5

Yellow CD      Levels 6-8

Blue CD         Levels 9-11

Green CD      Levels 12-14

Greygum - PM Gems Instillation and User Guide

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